British extremist thugs turned out to use YouTube’s revenue-sharing system to get cash from many companies, including Virgin Media, BT and O2, without their knowledge. Such groups as Blood& Honor or Combat 18, while lacking opposable thumbs but considering themselves racially superior, were benefiting from the automatic addition of advertisements to their videos uploaded to YouTube.

According to the agreements included in to the Adsense program, YouTube users are allowed to post non-copyrighted videos to benefit from advertisements on the page. The case is paid to the uploader of the video, and Neo-Nazis have used this aspect of the search giant’s business model to get cash for buying weapons, server space and their printing bills.

Google has been told and removed the videos in question, but there’s no indication that the company has put in place any protection to prevent such cases in the future. Their videos aimed at getting support by inciting hatred against minority and ethnic groups, hoping that people would support such kind of thing and so wouldn’t notice that the kind of people who incite such rubbish are the kind of people no-one would want to meet in a dark ally.

Of course, all that racial incitement is against the rules of the streaming service, but since YouTube doesn’t screen the videos, it requires people to flag inappropriate content. Meanwhile, Combat 18 members aren’t interested in flagging the videos, so they get repeated viewings. Worse still, if non-copyrighted video proves quite popular, its uploader is invited to join Google’s partner program and become known and loved by the international giant.

In Germany they take this kind of crime very seriously, and took a look into the YouTube account of one of the National Socialist Underground members who was arrested this past February. The individual was suspected in the case of the murder of ten Turkish immigrants in a series of racist killings throughout a decade. It is believed that David Copeland, the London nail bomber, and Anders Breivik, responsible for the 2011 Norway attacks, had received support from Internet communities.

Unsurprisingly, Virgin Media was a bit upset that Beardie’s advertisements were associated with neo-Nazi material. The company’s representative said in the interview that they had a strict policy on its advertisement placement and therefore were concerned about adverts appearing against unrelated and unsuitable videos uploaded to YouTube.

Yes, SaM seems particularly upset by British nationalist/racial pride groups but no mention of much more destructive groups. Interesting. I can only imagine how deep his double standards go.

The Nazis left quite a nasty and parasitic legacy of self-hate among European natives. Do anything even vaguely right wing or nationalist or hinting at racial pride and you will get the label. I wonder how many more decades will pass before this viewpoint becomes balanced again, and what the final cost will be.

In the UK you can abbreviate British (the British identity) to Brit but not Pakistani to Paki. Ooh no!

You can post "Jesus Christ/ Christ/Jesus are you thick" (Blasphemy of a common traditional British religion) etc all day long on internet threads but you cannot do the same to Muhammad. The talking heads will always say they will not bow to threats of violence, but I think that is what is at work there, although no one will admit it.

You are somewhat persecuted if you try to hide your identity as a traditional Brit. You are not allowed to enter Petrol Station Kiosk with a full face crash helmet on. And can you imagine the alarm if you entered a bank with a balaclava on? Although its fine to hide your face and much of your body under a burqa.

The UK sells its own traditions down the river. Allows attacks on its people and gives positive discrimination to ethnic minorities.

And you know what? The ethnics still think they are poorly catered for.

If Christmas wasn't a larger economic miracle (LOL) that would be outlawed in schools around the country too.

some comments here are too banal,I am a British citizen and sickened by the American and British atrocities already perpetrated in Iraq and ongoing in the middle east and the place for neo-nazis whose own ethnicity is more than questionable is on the end of my size 10 boot,I walk into shops and garages wearing a flip face helmet(caberg) without issue in almost all cases and given that banks and post offices have been held up by people in full face helmets if I am asked which rarely happens I will comply if they ask me nicely,If they do not I ask them to show me the signs that have to be legally posted to show I have to remove my helmet which they do not have.Most Englishmen if truth be known are not in 90% of cases English but Norman or Germanic,slavik and all originated in Turkey originally (Caucasians) so Subscribing to the bullsh1te of the EDL and BNP propaganda machine is bollix as is following the Americans we have set you free bs to the people of Iraq when Saddam kept them free from Insurgence and gave them 36 years of peace between the 5 tribes now there is more abuse and sectarian violence than ever there was before Saddam and the country is literally had the sh1te blown out of it,the real terrorists have moved into the country and we have bolstered their ranks with the people of Iraq we have so cruelly treated and oppressed,these are the sentiments of a white,English,Christian not swayed by Neo-fascist Bullsh1te.

I suggest people watch the english documentary on this site:Dispatches-Iraqs secret war files,done by channel 4 it shows a small proportion of the scale of what was done in Iraq by U.S troops and the resulting violence to its citizens.
Muslims follow the Koran which mentions Jesus as a prophet as was Mohd and the Archangel Gabriel and they worship God the same God we worship,In England we no longer call Negros chalky,Sambo,gollywogs etc so why persecute Muslims are we so insecure in ourselves that we have to belittle others beliefs or ethnicity,it does seem so.

As for some of the other comments made extreme right or parties that follow the edicts of Adolph Schicklegruber (HITLER) should not be allowed lest we fail to learn from past mistakes and extreme left parties or parties such as Labour in the UK are elected with the premise of Abe lincoln in mind for the people elected by the people (supposedly) and look how that worked out this country had a 2bn GBP trade deficit prior to going to Iraq and it is now in debt to around over a trillion GBP and rising,Tony Blair did alright out of it though as he now has a 5m GBP house in the country 20m GBP in property portfolio and is now in charge of overseas affairs,not bad for a politician on 86,000 GBP a year hmmm.

A good news article which does just scratch the surface of the neo-fascist problem facing the UK and Europe,extremism gone wild is the problem facing England and Europe today and we should deal with our own issues before interfering in the politics of other countries.

It might interest Seksor and others that I personally voted for Margaret Thatcher who was right wing and who gave this country 18 years of stability and prosperity, who took us to war only when sovereign territory was at risk albeit 11000 miles from our shores in the Falklands,if attacked we defend ourselves but we were`nt attacked by the Iraqis and there army surrendered in the first 24 hours,still we carpet bombed their cities for months and over the years caused insurgences by Al-Qaeda,sectarian violence and are responsible for 100,000`s of deaths of civilians,those that are refugees in this country should not be persecuted further nor should any Muslims be persecuted by Neo-Nazis whether Iraqi or not due to their belief or are we going to start crucifying them as Romans did to Christians,we all believe in one God regardless of the Title,size and structure of the Book.

No SV8pro I am from 5 generations of British servicemen who follow the orders from their government and do their duty regardless of personal feeling,my grandfather served in ww1 and ww2,my uncle ww2 and was a sqd Ldr in RAF,my brothers both served in RAF and are decorated ,my brother in law was navy,my nephews one served 3 tours in Iraq one was navy,my father was a CPO in the merchant and was mechanition in charge of an RCT section and who was introduced to Princess Diana and I was RCT British Army.

I support the Armed forces of my country to the Hilt but do not condone the reasons for the war/police action set about by our government or the Americans,a soldiers duty is to follow the orders of his commander in chief and our armed forces did a commendable job and did all could be asked of them despite their personal feelings as is expected of a soldier.